Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
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- Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
- Author
- Nolle, Heinrich, fl. 1612-1619.
- Publication
- London. :: Printed by Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-Yard,
- 1655.
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- Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89713.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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frettings, and pitty his ignorance. Those are bad Spirits, that have the light; and such are all malicious despisers of true knowledge, who out of meere envie, scrib∣ble and rail at all endea∣vours; but such as sub∣mit to, and Deifie their rigid superstition, and twice sodden Colworts. For my owne part, I ho∣nour the truth where e∣ver I find it, whether in an old, or a new Booke, in
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Galen, or in Paracelsus; and Antiquity, (where I find it gray with errors) shall have as little reve∣rence from me, as Nove∣lisme. Veritatem tempus manu-ducit. There is no reason (if they bind not their owne hands) but the discoveries of Survi∣vers and Posterity, may and should be more per∣fect, then the superficiall searches, and first at∣tempts▪ or aims rather of their predecessors. I wish
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we were all unbiassed and impartiall learners, not the implicite, groundlesse Proselyts of Authors and opinions, but the loyall friends and followers of truth. It would not then be impossible, but that we might in a short time attain to that perfection, which while it is envied in some, will never bee found in all. As men are killed by fighting, so truth is lost by disputing; for while we study the
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figments and subtilties of Sophisters, wee cannot search into the operations and virtues of nature. As many as wil consider this, it is not improbable, but they may do well. But de∣spisers, and such as hate to be quietly instructed, must be punished with silence, lest by seeking their peace, we lose our owne.